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duress, It is said that Margaret Waley con- UDBIGLA LAY == =erss the kidnaping as he or Harmon. Federal agents say they captured | Waley through his wife's confession, then both Waleys confessed, impli- cating Mahan as the extortionist, and helping recover much of the loot. SR PR B i S 25 IN PRINCE GEORGES (Copyright, 1935, by the Associated Press.) JOIN IN SHORT COURSE = - | TACOMA, Wash., June 14.—A Prin- | w0 i1l Take Part in' Thir- eiple of old English law—that a wife 1s the mere chattel of her husband— was cited by Tacoma attorneys as likely to save Mrs. Harmon M. | Waley from a life sentence for kid- | BY a Staff Correspondent of The Star. naping George Weyerhaeuser. | HYATTSVILLE, Md, June 14— While the 19-year-old Mrs. Waley | Twenty-five Prince Georges County and her ex-convict husband remained | women have enrolled for~the thir- incommunicado in the county jail at | teenth annual rural women's short Olympia, Federal agents followed up | course which opens at the University fresh clues in their intensive search |of Maryland on Monday. for Willlam Mahan, the third suspect ‘They are: in the $200,000 kidnaping. Mrs. Bertha Davis, Mrs. Mary Near Butte, Mont., they searched a | Hainsworth, Mrs. Harry Higbee, Mrs. mountain cabin, from which a mys- | M. H. B. Hoffman, Mrs. C. E. Janes, terious occupant was believed to have | Mrs. Harry Jenkins, Mrs. Harry Ley, fled when the owner approached it |Mrs. T. F. Taylor, Miss Ethel M. Re- yesterday. Fingerprints were taken of gan, Miss Rosa Conover, Mrs. Edward articles in the cabin to determine if | Hislop, Mrs. Dan Carrigan, Miss the recent resident might have been | Grace Hurley, Mrs. L. L. Hurley, Mrs. the scar-faced Mahan, Bessie = | Miss Maude McCoy, Miss Phil McCoy, Ancient Law Cited. Miss Pernie Marcus, Mrs. Leo 8. As Tacomans speculated abouf the | Mudd, Mrs. Herndon Peach, Mrs. E. outcome of the Federal kidnap trial, S. Rigoli, Mrs. George E. Weed, Mrs. attorneys cited a bit of jurisprudence | R. L. Jenkins and Mrs. W. F. Mul- from the Middle Ages which is an im- | ligan. portant part of modern Federal law, . that a wife has no will of her own. | . . It holds, in effect, that when a wife | Woman in Gliders’ Meet. takes part in a crime with her hus- | Mrs. M. Mickie of the Belfast Glid- band she is assumed to be acting un- | ing Club.was the only woman among der his dominance—that Margaret 120 men to take part in the recent Attorneys Cite Principle Which May Keep Mrs. Waley From Life Term. teenth Annual Session at U. of M. McCoy, Miss Grace McCoy, | i | | | Thulin Waley allegedly helped secrete | meet of the Nationa! Gliding Associa- | George, helped take him into Idaho ' tion at Sutton Bank, England. Strainless Ofi- the-Hip Seams An exclusive new bias cut eliminates all strain and improves the fit'. , NO twisting, pulling, bunching or hiking! Seams placed off the hips, to'the back for a smooth silhouette . shadow panel in the BACK, a logical new idea! Fashioned of Crepe Yoma—rigidly tested for durability, washability and construc- tion. Lace or tailored. Sizes 32-44. 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A. decision, still retain many of the objectives | preventing suits to recover those pre- Processing Tax Retained. As the commitiee concluded its re- write job, Senator Capper, Republican, of Kansas said in a radio talc that the bill leaves essentially unchanged the processing tax and benefit pay- ments to growers of basic agricultural commodities, He indorsed the measure. The bill retains discretionary power for Wallace to “order” mar- keting agreements on handlers of milk, tobacco, fruits (excluding ap- ples), vegetables (excluding those for canning), naval stores and turpen- tine—if 50 per cent of the handlers by volume want such agreements or if two-thirds the producers in a given class desire them. The measure also says that in a carefully-defined range of interstate commerce, prices paid to milk pro- ducers may be set by the Govern- ment and milk retailers subjected to “orders.” Other important provis- fons: Safeguards procesing taxes by balloting | tutional; freeses present levies in the THE EVENING STAR, -WASHINGTON, D.. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 14. 1935. of cash benefit payments in fat years for drawing upon in lean years— granary” Walace’s “ever mnormal plan, Permits using 30 per cent of cus- toms receipts and processing tax equivalents for paying farm product exporters the difference between do- mestic and world prices. Queen Helps Scouts. Queen Mary has sent a leather dressing case and a leather manicure set to Boy Scouts of Aberdeen, Scot= land, who will sell them to raise funds for a permanent camping ground. Farm Income Climbs. 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